Top 695 Women Quotes

The Great Depression of the 1930s saw more American unmarried women working from nine to five, mostly in repetitive, boring, subordinate, dead-end jobs. But the number of working women doubled between 1870 and 1940. During World War II it doubled once again.

To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

I have no illusions at all about being a sex symbol. None of my former girlfriends ever thought of me that way, and I don’t have any packs of women chasing me down the street like a Brad Pitt or someone like that.

I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.

I owe nothing to Women’s Lib.

Obviously, there are moments that you look back at and cringe – things in the past involving violence or disrespect to women or disrespect to other people that are so far away from what I want to put out there now. But it’s actually a privilege to be able to change and be making records that reflect that change.

We’re getting ready to take over the world. My group of girlfriends – we’re renegades.

It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s Earth.

I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It’s like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I’d like to play strong women who are also very feminine.

I didn’t want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.

Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement – particularly men, I don’t know why, maybe it’s the testosterone – I think it’s narcissism. Even more than hubris. And for women, too. Narcissism is the killer.

There are so many young women coming up through the ranks. Adele is an amazing singer. Beyonce has great stage presence. She’s just a beautiful woman. I love how everyone has just taken charge of their lives and careers.

Everyone has a different beauty and different qualities and I think that women need to learn to love their qualities and be comfortable in the fact that everyone is different.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have.

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

If women were particular about men’s characters, they would never get married at all.

What women really want is opportunity and the freedom to love and accept all aspects of womanhood – the intellectual, spiritual, professional, biological and relational dimensions of who we are.

I believe strongly in the rights of women… my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter is a woman, my wife is a woman.

I’ll always prefer to play with women and hang out with women, and I’ll always be a feminist.

It is true that in France, women put on less things. If they have a necklace, they don’t put on earrings; if they have nail polish, they don’t put on all their rings and all their bracelets.

Childfree women are actually great assets to the planet. Our carbon footprint is smaller than a mom’s! And we have enough money to write checks to organizations that help kids get vaccinations, vitamins, and educations yet have plenty of free time to advise your daughter that one day she will regret piercing her lip.

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

Most drag impersonations are a drag. But women can like Geraldine, men can like Geraldine, everyone can like Geraldine.

I’m bisexual. And so, you know, I’ve dated men and women.

Women’s liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It’s men who are discriminated against. They can’t bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.

I’ve yet to be on a campus where most women weren’t worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I’ve yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

I’m just going to say I’m not gay. I really, really like women. That’s all I can really say about that.

Abortion does not just hurt women. Abortion hurts a family, and it has a domino effect of hurting those related and close to those families through the grief and reality of losing a child to abortion.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.

There’s nothing more superficial to do than to paint a beautiful woman. The most beautiful portraits in art were of ugly women. If you paint Brigitte Bardot, it’s a disaster. Sunsets, you have to stay away from sunsets. You paint a sunset, you are in great danger.

Pro-life feminists believe in women and their ability. Pro-choice feminists only see women as weak and something to be exploited.

Women today have so many opportunities in fields like engineering. The work is new and engineers are making things work, making the impossible possible. I want girls to know about the opportunities out there.

I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.

I want to tell women that you need to love yourself and make yourself a priority. It’s only when you are happy yourself, can you make everyone else around you happy. I am still a dreamer and still believe in fairy tales, but there is only that much one should give another person. You need to keep something for yourself.

My complexion, we too gutter: light-skinned women are more sensitive.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

When anything goes, it’s women who lose.

In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.

Ninety-nine percent of the men and women of the FBI… are just professionals. I don’t want Americans, if an FBI agent knocks on their door, to have to be worried about well, is he a Democrat or a Republican? He’s an FBI agent.

Others have said it before me. If you don’t have a seat at the table, you’re probably on the menu. And so it is important that we have women in the United States Senate – strong women, women who are there to help advance an agenda that is important to women.

Old women should not seek to be perfumed.

Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.

Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth… these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women’s empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.

In my opinion, the battles over birth control and Planned Parenthood are primarily neither political nor religious. This is an issue of equality for women. This is an issue of women’s rights: Planned Parenthood is the most important private provider of reproductive health care for women in the United States.

I hate it that there are so many beautiful women in the world, and I can’t have all of them for myself.

When it comes to women, there has been a tendency to define women in sports in the context of their relationships – they watch games because their husbands watch. They’re interested because their kids play a sport. They buy tickets to a sporting event because it’s a way to spend time with family.

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket.

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

You know, there’s nothing damnable about being a strong woman. The world needs strong women. There are a lot of strong women you do not see who are guiding, helping, mothering strong men. They want to remain unseen. It’s kind of nice to be able to play a strong woman who is seen.

‘Women’s’ war has its own colors, its own smells, its own lighting, and its own range of feelings. There are no heroes and incredible feats; there are simply people who are busy doing inhumanly human things.

In 1969, I gave up women and alcohol – it was the worst 20 minutes of my life.

My advice to women in general: Even if you’re doing a nine-to-five job, treat yourself like a boss. Not arrogant, but be sure of what you want – and don’t allow people to run anything for you without your knowledge.

I think that’s something that all mothers have to deal with, especially single mothers. We work, and we have to leave the kids behind. And I think that’s one of the reasons that we, not only as women but as families, we have to advocate for early childhood education for all of our children.

The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of ‘Women’s Rights’. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.

I certainly don’t think of my life as a fairy tale. I think of myself as a modern, contemporary woman who has had to deal with all kinds of problems that many women today have to deal with.

Historically, our culture has not made room for the nuances of humanity. People have not been kept safe: women, people of colour, queer people, transgender people.

A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.

I create women characters by watching the female staff at my studio. Half the staff are women.

We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men… We are who we are because they were who they were. It’s wise to know where you come from, who called your name.

Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.

Women’s art, political art – those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I’m resistant to. But I absolutely define myself as a feminist.

Fleabag knows men and women are equal and should be treated as such, but what she’s confused about – and what I was confused about – was the idea that wanting bigger boobs doesn’t mean you don’t want equal rights.

Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.

One of the most radical things women can do is to love their body.

Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.

In the public eye, girls and women with strong perspectives are hated. If you’re a girl with an opinion, people just hate you. There are still people who are afraid of successful women, and that’s so lame.

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.

I come from a family of strong women, who have been positive role models for me.

If it wasn’t for women, I wouldn’t be here. I’m a mamma’s boy at heart. I love my mom. I have the deepest, utmost respect for women.

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.

You must make women count as much as men; you must have an equal standard of morals; and the only way to enforce that is through giving women political power so that you can get that equal moral standard registered in the laws of the country. It is the only way.

Americans like fat books and thin women.

After all those years as a woman hearing ‘not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,’ almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, ‘I’m enough.’

The building up of a new, far-reaching system of inspection on the question of equal pay, with power to investigate every business in the United States, administered by a colossal new government agency with vast enforcement powers, would not be helpful to women, as far as I can see.

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

I think there was a freedom in the 1920s and 1930s: a certain liberty and evolution of women.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

The women’s movement hasn’t changed my sex life. It wouldn’t dare.

For women’s tears are but the sweat of eyes.

Men and women have roles – their roles are different, but their rights are equal.

I think we would be stronger if half our countries and companies were run by women and half our homes were run by men.

High heels empower women in a way.

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

The more you win, the brand of women’s cricket will go higher.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.

In 1973, the Roe v. Wade decision concluded that women have a constitutionally protected right to safe and legal abortions. That landmark decision wasn’t the beginning of women having abortions; it was the end of women dying from abortions.

So often public service comes with sacrifice. A sacrifice that our men and women in uniform make each day.

If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

Women are more likely to have sex and fall in love, which can be tough because that’s not the way men work.

As I’ve always said, ‘I’m a lover, not a fighter.’ I’m much better with women than I am being tough in a bar!

Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.

Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, Yet with itself every soul standeth single.

Women won’t let me stay single and I won’t let me stay married.

On Memorial Day, I don’t want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live.

We need to hear stories from older women. There’s a wealth of wisdom and real resilience there, but they’re silenced.

No poll can equal the day-to-day visits of the men and women of the Democratic Party.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

When I go back to Texas, I travel the state, and I see people all the time who come up to me, men and women across Texas, and they grab me by the shoulder, and they’re afraid. They say, ‘Ted, you know, I just lost my health insurance. I got a child with diabetes. I’m scared. Please stop this from happening.’

I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.

I feel women with long hair have a completely different charm – they can attract more attention and if I may say so, they look so Indian!

Women are like cars: we all want a Ferrari, sometimes want a pickup truck, and end up with a station wagon.

Every woman is sexy in her own way. It is up to men to step up and make women feel like they are No. 1 on that list. There is no such thing as perfection.

It can’t be articulated enough, that feminism means the desire to have equality between men and women. I believe that, and I act on those beliefs by going to marches and making a difference where I can.

Nigeria’s unity is one for which enough blood has been spilled and many hundreds of thousands of lives have been lost. Many have paid for the unity of this country with their lives, and it will be wrong of us, as men and women of goodwill in this generation, to toy with those sacrifices that have been made.

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.

The great thing about American women is their energy and the way they love to dress. French women don’t really dress; they are too conservative, as it’s always a question of money. In America, women are powerful and strong, determined. If they want to be an object, they choose to be in control.

There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work in her slippers, but in modern society, I think an independent woman is even more sexy.

The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.

The same way that racism is a white person’s problem, violence against women is a men’s problem.

The women’s movement had already paved the way, I think, for my coming.

If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

Women hold up half the sky.

One of the problems in the biotech world is the lack of women in leadership roles, and I’d like to see that change by walking the walk.

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

We must learn how to live in the space of inner peace in our everyday lives. This takes consistent, conscious effort because I know so many black women are hurting and sad, and we don’t easily express our heartache or show our wounds.

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

Women are the root of all evil. I ought to know. I’m Evel.

Women belong in the bedroom and the kitchen, in that order.

I really like women who get emotional about babies and puppies. I’ve met some incredibly cool women who are tough, but the woman you marry should have a really soft side.

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.

At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves.

On the question of comfort women, when my thought goes to these people, who have been victimized by human trafficking and gone through immeasurable pain and suffering beyond description, my heart aches. And on this point, my thought has not changed at all from previous prime ministers.

We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.

Women like to sit down with trouble – as if it were knitting.

Yes, it’s a man’s world, but that’s all right because they’re making a total mess of it. We’re chipping away at their control, taking the parts we want. Some women think it’s a difficult task, but it’s not.

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror – and America is honored to be their friend.

Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.

To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it’s no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.

Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work… a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.

The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism.

If we do not lift up women and families, everyone will fall short.

Men and women have strengths that complement each other.

You can’t raise the standard of women’s morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, ‘She doesn’t have what it takes’; They will say, ‘Women don’t have what it takes.’

A feminist is a person who believes in the power of women just as much as they believe in the power of anyone else. It’s equality, it’s fairness, and I think it’s a great thing to be a part of.

Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we’ve always had: work, or prison.

There are a number of women who have brought about immense change in society.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

People forget the punk thing was really good for women. It motivated them to pick up a guitar rather than be a chanteuse. It allowed us to be aggressive.

Because women are more than the people who raise our children, they are fantastic leaders in their own rights in our community, and we want to give them the same safe environment, as we would expect.

Women want to attract a ‘high-value’ man. If that’s the man you want to attract you have to be high value yourself.

I guess I just don’t have a talent for it, some women just aren’t the marrying kind – or anyway, not the permanent marrying kind, and I’m one of them.

I faced a number of challenges whilst I built Biocon. Initially, I had credibility challenges where I couldn’t get banks to fund me; I couldn’t recruit people to work for a woman boss. Even in the businesses where I had to procure raw materials, they didn’t want to deal with women.

Women have fought so long and hard for our rights and equality, and now all our attention is put on being a size 0.

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn’t worth ruling.

Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.

Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.

On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn’t we be taking the same risks in space?

I think all beautiful women have a clean look. They like things that are simple.

Women live lives of continual apology. They are born and raised to take the blame for other people’s behavior. If they are treated without respect, they tell themselves that they have failed to earn respect. If their husbands do not fancy them, it is because they are unattractive.

All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what’s sexy or cool or tough.

Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it’s looks, most women know otherwise.

Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.

Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

Women have always been courageous… They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights.

I come from a background where bigger women are appreciated. After all, you can’t belly dance with a flat stomach, so my ideal body would be curvy, womanly and voluptuous.

The use of sanitary pads and the dos and don’ts should be discussed with openness so as to make a hygienic and healthy life for the women.

There might be a lot of difference between Republicans and Democrats on key social issues like women’s rights and health care. But when it comes to taking corporate cash, they’re pretty much the same beast.

There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.

They say a lot of women would like to see me naked, but there’s not a lens long enough for that.

I didn’t marry to have children. I married to have a relationship, and I was blessed with one child. I was an only child, too – my mother was smarter than most women today; she just had me.

You can be a thousand different women. It’s your choice which one you want to be. It’s about freedom and sovereignty. You celebrate who you are. You say, ‘This is my kingdom.’

What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren’t supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown – watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?

It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics.

The middle of ‘America’s Women’ is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in every other period of crisis, the rules of sexual decorum were suspended due to emergency.

I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage. Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.

I like women. I love women.

I consider abortion to be a deeply personal and intimate issue for women and I don’t believe male legislators should even vote on the issue.

I’m not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they’ll have, immediately the floor will rise.

The battle for women’s rights has been largely won.

The Woman’s Party is made up of women of all races, creeds and nationalities who are united on the one program of working to raise the status of women.

Whether it is a tsunami, or whether it is a hurricane, whether it’s an earthquake – when we see these great fatal and natural acts, men and women of every ethnic persuasion come together and they just want to help.

I don’t eat with beautiful women alone.

What counts the most for women is having the confidence to make your own money.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

With women, I’ve got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can’t get away or come too close. Like catching snakes.

I’m thankful for the work that feminists like Gloria Steinem have done. I am a feminist, but the geography for women today is vastly different than it was in the ’60s.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Most fashion photography is done by gay people finding women sexy – which is sort of not sexy at all, at least to a heterosexual man.

They say women and music should never be dated.

Let’s be very clear: Strong men – men who are truly role models – don’t need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful. People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.

Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.

I guess at the end of the day, all women like to be appreciated and treated with respect and kindness.

Women hear rhythm differently than men.

Every woman is sexy in her own way. It is up to men to step up and make women feel like they are No. 1 on that list. There is no such thing as perfection.

Women don’t take enough risks. Men are just ‘foot on the gas pedal.’ We’re not going to close the achievement gap until we close the ambition gap.

I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate.

I think feminism is the worst thing that ever happened to women. Our job used to be no job. We had it so good!

Older women know who they are, and that makes them more beautiful than younger ones. I like to see a face with some character. I want to see lines. I want to see wrinkles.

If women feel they are able to go from partner to partner without feeling emotionally invested and ultimately hurt, they should go for it.

I definitely love women. They are more attractive to the naked eye.

So many women just don’t know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.

I’ve always liked men better than women.

We didn’t take Charlize Theron seriously until she did ‘Monster’ and became physically ugly. I would love to see women be able to be powerful, complex, smart, opinionated and taken seriously, even if they are beautiful.

I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.

If women will not accept marriage with subjection, nor men proffer it without, there is, there can be, no alternative. The women who will not be ruled must live without marriage. And during this transition period… single women make comfortable and attractive homes for themselves.

I grew up in the Bronx where you would stay up late with your girlfriends, just being silly in our bedrooms, whatever. And I was always the clown.

Part of the reason that women go to college is to get out of the food service, clerical, pink-collar ghetto and into a more white-collar job. That does not necessarily mean they are being paid more than the blue-collar jobs men have.

We believe women have rights in Islam that they’ve yet to obtain.

Women are incredible in groups together. Terrifying. Men have nothing on them.

Obviously, there is much similarity among the challenges of transgender people and all women – from health care to harassment to discrimination in the workplace.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

Feminism is liberalism, and look at what it’s doing, look at what it’s promoting, look at what it’s condoning. All the while, we have to live in this lie that there’s some sort of Republican War on Women. We don’t do this to women! We don’t objectify women like this.

Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top.

I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don’t see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.

As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don’t ever want to lose that.

Women want honesty but sometimes get upset if you are honest, so you need to know when to be honest.

I like my whisky old and my women young.

You’re not working with models, you’re working with real women who have, like, anatomy. Models do not have anatomy.

Everyone is allowed to be vulnerable. I think women and men and dogs and cats and ants and aliens can all express themselves and be vulnerable.

It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government: the ballot.

Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.

You’ve gotta do things that make you happy. As women, we tend to give away a lot. We take care of a lot of people, and we can’t forget to take care of ourselves.

Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.

Women’s virtue is man’s greatest invention.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.

It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.

Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.

Gay guys love women who are tough, who are survivors. They always call me a diva. And I am a survivor; I’ve pulled through everything and I’ve not become bitter about it.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.

The women that inspire me to be honest are the women that struggle.

It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.

I think women like Ferraris. A Ferrari is everybody’s car.

The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself; that is not what I meant by freedom, it is only social progress.

To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.

I have beautiful, beautiful clothes, designed by my bachelor boy son, Kenny. Kenny has a big following as it is, and even Lady Gaga has asked Kenny to design dresses for her. But Kenny isn’t very keen on, well, shall we say, extreme women. He likes someone that women all over the world can identify with.

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.

The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.

I go out with white women. This makes a lot of people unhappy, mostly black women.

I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.

I want to say a little something that’s long overdue, the disrespect to women has got to be through. To all the mothers and the sisters and the wives and friends, I wanna offer my love and respect till the end.

That’s the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.

Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.

If more women are in leadership roles, we’ll stop assuming they shouldn’t be.

Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.

The glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution – nor by the courts – nor by the officers of the law – nor by the lawyers – but by the men and women who constitute our society – who are the protectors of the law as they are themselves protected by the law.

Men are motivated and empowered when they feel needed. Women are motivated and empowered when they feel cherished.

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It’s a whole different way of thinking.

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.

I like my wine like my women – ready to pass out.

Women’s Lib? Poor little things. They always look so unhappy. Have you noticed how bitter their faces are?

Sisterhood is important because we are all we have to stand on. We have to stand near and by each other, pray for one another, and share the joys and the difficulties that women face in the world today. If we don’t talk about it among ourselves, then we are made silent by the patriarchy, and that serves us no purpose.

Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any new law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities.

I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want you to.

Gender is not an easy conversation to have. It makes people uncomfortable, sometimes even irritable. Both men and women are resistant to talk about gender or are quick to dismiss the problems of gender. Because thinking of changing the status quo is always uncomfortable.

I like women. I don’t understand them, but I like them.

There’s no prerequisites to worthiness. You’re born worthy, and I think that’s a message a lot of women need to hear.

On the question of comfort women, when my thought goes to these people, who have been victimized by human trafficking and gone through immeasurable pain and suffering beyond description, my heart aches. And on this point, my thought has not changed at all from previous prime ministers.

Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.

As we know, menstrual hygiene is an issue women have been facing over the years. It’s great that the initiative to provide low-cost sanitary napkins has been undertaken. It is an empowering step for many women.

Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must – at that moment – become the center of the universe.

I have crushes on women all the time. I don’t have intimate relationships with them, but I find women beautiful.

There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families’ and the country’s economic development. A girl’s lack of education also has a negative impact on the health and well-being of her children.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.

Women’s natural role is to be a pillar of the family.

Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn’t do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.

I am not handsome, but when women hear me play, they come crawling to my feet.

Women are the real architects of society.

Because you are women, people will force their thinking on you, their boundaries on you. They will tell you how to dress, how to behave, who you can meet and where you can go. Don’t live in the shadows of people’s judgement. Make your own choices in the light of your own wisdom.

Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.

Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women’s rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do.

There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.

Women have to be active listeners and interrupters – but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.

I think we’re struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To allow freedom for women, freedom for men, freedom from those sharply defined gender roles.

Most women don’t like good men. They say they want a good buy, but most women always wind up with the bad boy.

I hate to generalize, but in general, both men and women suffer from ageism. Men much less because men gain power as they get older. Women lose power as they get older. Men are seen as gaining experience and being distinguished. Sons look forward to replacing their fathers.

I’m a multi-faceted woman and person, like all women are – there’s no black and white. We have shades of grey in the middle. And even many more colours that other people don’t see!

If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.

Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex.

Mother’s Day celebrates a huge lie about the value of women: that mothers are superior beings, that they have done more with their lives and chosen a more difficult path.

Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; – that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.

Women are like elephants. I like to look at ’em, but I wouldn’t want to own one.

I haven’t trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I’ve never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.

If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.

Were there no women, men might live like gods.

The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can’t help it – can’t help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We’ve been taught that silence would save us, but it won’t.

There’s three things men always talk about – women, sports, and cars.

I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men; they are far superior and always have been.

Protecting the lives of women in childbirth and in their postpartum months should be a common priority.

Youth is impulsive. When our young men grow angry at some real or imaginary wrong, and disfigure their faces with black paint, it denotes that their hearts are black, and that they are often cruel and relentless, and our old men and old women are unable to restrain them. Thus it has ever been.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

I am both humbled and honored to receive the Honda Sports Award for women’s basketball.

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

I care very much about women and their progress. I didn’t go march in the streets, but when I was in the Arizona Legislature, one of the things that I did was to examine every single statute in the state of Arizona to pick out the ones that discriminated against women and get them changed.

What does it say about a country that has to force its women into combat?

Yes, we become stronger when men and women, young and old, gay and straight, native-born and immigrant fight together to create the kind of country we all know we can become.

Honor your daughters. They are honorable.

One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.

Femininity is part of the God-given divinity within each of you. It is your incomparable power and influence to do good. You can, through your supernal gifts, bless the lives of children, women, and men. Be proud of your womanhood. Enhance it. Use it to serve others.

I’ve been misunderstood when it comes to women. I’ve got a big heart and a little brain. But I love women being women; there’s something about their skin. I do love strong, independent women, but they are definitely complicated.

There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.

All the women want to be with me, all the men want to be like me.

History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they’ve answered the call in bravery and sacrifice.

In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.

Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted.

This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs, things today might have been different.

Young women from a very young age are taught that life will be easier if you can just turn on the charming smile and say very little and be complacent and docile and sweet.

I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.

If we’re discussing women’s empowerment and equal rights, then yes, I support it.

Aviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationship of women and the creations of science. Although women have not taken full advantage of its use and benefits, air travel is as available to them as to men.

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.

It’s important for women to embrace their beauty and sexuality. Females are victimized and made to feel ashamed of their bodies, or they can’t be smart and beautiful, and I try to work against that.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

Wilt Chamberlain lied when he said he had 20,000 women.

We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.

Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.

For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected.

Don’t get caught up in the ‘look’ thing. Sometimes, we as men and women, the first thing that attracts us to someone is their physical appearance, and that’s not always a good thing because what’s good on the outside is not always good on the inside.

Sometimes when we think about femininity, we think also fragile. But I think you can be feminine and very strong. I think make-up goes with that femininity. I think it’s a natural gesture for women and one they do more for themselves than for others.

It is always the village women who drive these things.

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

A woman should be like a single flower, not a whole bouquet.

The aboriginal women leaders of Papunya – the Papunya Artists – performed a dance for me: the Honey Ant dance. They’d never done it for anyone else. They honoured me with a ceremonial stick that signifies the story of the land.

There are many women who came before me who didn’t really have the same opportunities that I have had. That’s why I always wanted to be a great ambassador – not only today’s generation – but for the women who really didn’t have a voice, but who paved the way for me.

Gaming in general is a male thing. It isn’t that gaming is designed to exclude women. Everybody who’s tried to design a game to interest a large female audience has failed. And I think that has to do with the different thinking processes of men and women.

Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain’t got.

Not only is women’s work never done, the definition keeps changing.

Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.

I had a stunt double for ‘The Bronze.’ She’s literally the most amazing human being I’ve ever seen. She’s NCAA women’s gymnastics champion. She was incredible. I would poke her thighs, and my nail would break because it was like poking a rock.

Women don’t go to war to kill other women. Wars and armies and nuclear weapons are essentially heterosexual hobbies.

All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day.

Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women I have known.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

On the whole, I think women wear too much and are to fussy. You can’t see the person for all the clutter.

Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.

As women, we may not be a minority, but there is a bond that we all share. It is not a bond of geography. Or religion. Or culture. It is a bond of shared experience – experiences that only women go through and struggles that only women face.

If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.

To this day I get mail from women who say, I went to law school because of your song. But I would hate to think out of the wide spectrum of things I have done in my career, that’s all I would be remembered for.

If women want any rights more than they’s got, why don’t they just take them, and not be talking about it.

It’s funny about men and women. Men pay in cash to get them and pay in cash to get rid of them. Women pay emotionally coming and going. Neither has it easy.

I’m like thousands of women in South Africa who lost their men to cities and prisons… I stand defiant, tall and strong.

My ideal man is faithful, honest, and a gentleman who knows how to treat women.

All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

Girls of color and young women need to be seen, heard, and valued. Schools can help make this happen by including our stories in the curriculum.

Women are considered deep – why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

Sex hasn’t been the same since women started enjoying it.

If you’re gay, that doesn’t mean I want to discriminate against you, belittle or bully you, abuse or offend you. Not at all. I don’t want to go back to the dark days of criminalisation and the imprisonment of gay men and women; of Section 28 and legalised discrimination.

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.

From birth to age 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35 she needs good looks. From 35 to 55 she needs a good personality. From 55 on, she needs good cash.

I dress for women and I undress for men.

I’m interested in women’s health because I’m a woman. I’d be a darn fool not to be on my own side.

It’s incredibly unfair. You don’t see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen.

Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.

Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.

And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go.

All right, then nobody can complain if we ask pregnant women to make parachute jumps.

I don’t know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.

Women have this obsession with shoes.

Silence is an ornament for women.

Safety and security of women and children will determine the well-being and strength of our nations.

I pine for a return to the type of old-school journalism and the tough newspapermen and women of the Thirties.

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

Women are the real reason we get up every day. I’m talking about real men. If there were no women, I would not even have to bathe, because why would I care? These are guys I’m hanging with. I wake up for a woman every day of my life to make it happen for her.

Women like myself, CEOs, can pave the way for more women to get to the top.

When President Obama entered the White House, the economy was in a free-fall. The auto industry: on its back. The banks: frozen up. More than three million Americans had already lost their jobs. And America’s bravest, our men and women in uniform, were fighting what would soon be the longest wars in our history.

Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.

Women are always told, ‘You’re not going to make it, its too difficult, you can’t do that, don’t enter this competition, you’ll never win it,’ – they need confidence in themselves and people around them to help them to get on.

The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.

Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.

I liked women as a shape to dress.

For a male artist, people instantly assume they write their own music, but for women, they assume it’s all manufactured.

Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.

For a long time, men weren’t respecting women. They weren’t understanding Mother Earth, Mother Nature, the Motherland, all the motherly stuff. And now we are.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn’t always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.

I do believe women have different ways of taking risks, of ruminating a bit more before they jump to conclusions. And I think that as a result, particularly on the, on, you know, on the trading floor, in the financial markets in general, the approach would be different.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

There are many, many different kinds of intersectional exclusions – not just black women but other women of color. Not just people of color, but people with disabilities. Immigrants. LGBTQ people. Indigenous people.

I’ve never looked for women. When I was a teenager, perhaps.

Women like to watch women fight because it makes them feel sort of empowered physically and mentally. They feel kind of jazzed and excited by it.

Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young.

Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.

Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.

I’m for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

But what of black women?… I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.

People always think women meet us in the hotel lobby, but it’s the opposite. The majority of the time, you go out to eat with your teammates, then rest for the next day’s game. It’s not a vacation – most guys view the road as a business trip.

I’m very proud of being a woman, and as a woman, I don’t even like the word ‘feminism’ because when I hear that word, I associate it with women trying to pretend to be men, and I’m not interested in trying to pretend to be a man. I don’t want to embrace manhood; I want to embrace my womanhood.

I know my name will always be linked with women.

A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.

I didn’t fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.

I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.

God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I’ve ever met.

Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing – and then marry him.

A lot of women say they love being pregnant, but I wasn’t such a big fan.

If I had to name one thing that differentiates me from the other women, it’s that I get free stuff at restaurants or get discounts.

The men and women who work in our prisons are the unsung heroes of the criminal justice system.

One of the things I’ve told men over and over and over and over is if you’re being rejected by all the women that you approach, it’s not the women!

I’m glad I’m not bisexual. I couldn’t stand being rejected by men as well as women.

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

All issues are women’s issues – and there are several that are just women’s business.

The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women’s fashion.

Armed Forces Day on May 21, and the Memorial Day weekend that follows, is a time to honor, remember and recognize those who serve and have served our country, as well as those who have died in service. As we reflect, let’s not forget the many sacrifices made at home as well in support of our men and women in uniform.

Cricket is not gender biased. It isn’t that men’s cricket is different and women’s a different one.

Absolutely, I don’t believe in rules. As I tell my daughter when she is mischievous, ‘Well-behaved women rarely make history.’

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.

Women pay attention to how men drive because it’s a good indicator of what kind of character you have. They want someone who’s going to be intelligent and cautious and assertive and confident when you need to be, but not overly aggressive and reckless, and also not timid and overly paranoid.

My mom was a source of strength. She showed me by example that women, regardless of how difficult life may get, can do it all.

Russian women like to be feminine. Even if it’s minus-10 degrees and snowing, a Russian woman will still be in her stilettos.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

My mum fought for feminism in her day so instilled in me the importance of equality. She taught me so much about women.

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.

Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys and women more than men. And there’s no doubt about that. We just don’t like to think about it. Certainly the men don’t like to think about it.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.

I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody’s passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn’t mind leading.

More countries have understood that women’s equality is a prerequisite for development.

Now, I have always believed that women are not victims; we are agents of change, we are drivers of progress, we are makers of peace – all we need is a fighting chance.

My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women’s education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.

At the end of the day, women are a distraction. Whether you realize it or not.

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother’s love.

The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.

If you want to be a woman in power, then empower other women.

While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I’m no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.

There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.

I have tried sex with both men and women. I found I liked it.

We’ve got to get women to sit at the table.

I also use women as a sex object; maybe I’m kinky. However, I like to talk to them as well.

Everything is a risk in Pakistan: If you defend women, it’s a risk. If you defend non-Muslims it’s a risk. If you discuss religion, it’s a risk. But you can’t really sit there like a vegetable in your own society. And I’m committed to that society… and I feel I need to turn around and speak as I should.

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

I just like short hair on women; I think it’s cool.

It’s true that, in Iran, women have half of the rights men do. And yet 66 per cent of students are women.

Women should be obscene and not heard.

Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.

People say women shouldn’t have long hair over a certain age, but I’ve never done what everyone says.

You’re not working with models, you’re working with real women who have, like, anatomy. Models do not have anatomy.

As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can’t drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against ’em anyway, you don’t belong in office.

As long as white people put people of color, African Americans and Latinos, in the same dispensable bag, and look at our children of color as insignificant and treat women of color as not as deserving of protection as white women, we will never achieve true equality.

All of our men and women in uniform, including our brave sailors in the U.S. Navy, deserve to have the best tools needed to carry out their mission to support and defend the Constitution of the United States.

The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.

I have spent a lifetime trying to share what it has meant to be a woman first in the world of sports so that other young women have a chance to reach their dreams.

Women are women, and hurray for that.

I want to encourage women to embrace their own uniqueness. Because just like a rose is beautiful, so is a sunflower, so is a peony. I mean, all flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that’s like women too.

It’s really important that young women be reminded that their involvement matters and that their voice is heard. Even if it feels like it’s small, it really can make an impact.

I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.

You have nothing if you’re texting a guy in a relationship. We can text six women a minute. We can text it and push ‘reply all.’ I mean, since we’re lying, we might as well lie to everybody.

I don’t know if it’s animalistic or what, but men become like peacocks with their feathers up when women are around.

I don’t hate women – they just sometimes make me mad.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it.

Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

I think women get caught up too much in having a plan – ‘I’m going to get married at this age; I’m going to have a kid at this age’ – and then they just try to find a guy who will fit into that picture. I don’t want my life to be based on that.

I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.

With trans people, I just think you can’t help the way you are born, though. You know, it’s DNA, it’s genetics. I’m just glad people can do things about their own happiness. I think this thought process that they’re trying to wipe out women is a bit ridiculous – it’s a minority of people.

Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.

To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.

Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.

My mom is actually a former prima ballerina, and all the women in my family are associated either with dance or choreography or acting, so I’m very lucky in a way because I grew up in a family of artists. I’ve been dancing since I was a little kid.

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

Men and women, women and men. It will never work.

When God created man and woman, he was thinking, ‘Who shall I give the power to, to give birth to the next human being?’ And God chose woman. And this is the big evidence that women are powerful.

I would love to see women be able to be powerful, complex, smart, opinionated and taken seriously, even if they are beautiful. Even more, I would love to see women held to different standards, other than the superficial ones that we’re held to.

I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn’t be a staring contest.

I am not a sexy woman, I’m not beautiful, I’m not a sex kitten, I don’t flirt with people, yet I’ve been tagged more of sex symbol than women who truly are and I that’s solely because I don’t reveal too much: people are curious.

I’ve always been attracted to women who are assertive and have confidence – qualities older women possess. They’ve been on the Earth a little longer. They’re more seasoned. They don’t play games. They know what they want, and they’re not afraid to tell you.

Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space we’ll take up, and the more we’ll have to be reckoned with.

Women who stay true to themselves are always more interesting and beautiful to me: women like Frida Kahlo, Georgia O’Keeffe and Anna Magnani – women who have style, chic, allure and elegance. They didn’t submit to any standard of beauty – they defined it.

I was ecstatic they re-named ‘French Fries’ as ‘Freedom Fries’. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.

There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.

America is a land where men govern, but women rule.

Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.

A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

Planned Parenthood doesn’t care about women’s health care needs; it cares about abortion.

I can promise you that women working together – linked, informed and educated – can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.

I think women are amazing for being able to show what they feel. I admire women who do. I think it’s a mistake when women cover their emotions to look tough. I say let’s own who we are and use it as a strength.

I’m a strong believer in the fact that women are born to multi-task. God has made us like that.

There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything – millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace.

A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.

I’m not denyin’ the women are foolish. God Almighty made ’em to match the men.

Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.

Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can’t get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.

I am a daughter, a sister, a wife and a mother. I am a friend of women and I am their advocate.

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

War is big business. It’s a lot of money going to and fro, and unfortunately a lot of angst, and a lot of fear, and a lot of doubt. And eventually a lot of wonderful people, like soldiers, like men and women that are out there trying to do the best they can, they come back being wounded on many levels.

If women ran the world we wouldn’t have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.

Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you’re quite battle-scarred.

The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for virtuous women.

I made ‘LS4TS2’ for women, my Day 1’s, the trenches, and all those that doubted me.

The worst enemy women have is in the pulpit.

Women are blessed with energy – a power which is unique. I have been very fortunate to have played strong women and explored their strengths through my films.

When I was 11, I saw this ad for dish soap powder that said, ‘Women all over America are fighting greasy pots and pans.’ I was so angry. I couldn’t understand why it didn’t say men as well.

I do not live in a world where people can walk on water, or still a storm, or take five loaves of bread and feed 5000 men plus women and children. If that is a requirement of my commitment to Jesus, I find it difficult to stretch my mind outside the capacities of my world view.

There’s a personality trait known as agreeableness. Agreeable people are compassionate and polite. And agreeable people get paid less than disagreeable people for the same job. Women are more agreeable than men.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.

Investing in women’s lives is an investment in sustainable development, in human rights, in future generations – and consequently in our own long-term national interests.

Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.

Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I’m not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent – just like there’s a side of me that’s vulgar and violent.

As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women’s worlds.

Men’s vows are women’s traitors!

I think older women still have a full life.

Women are so complicated, it’s unbelievable.

In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.

Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I’m taking with me when I go.

The sadness of the women’s movement is that they don’t allow the necessity of love. See, I don’t personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

Listen, ‘real’ women are the reason the fashion industry exists.

Women… can’t live with ’em… can’t shoot ’em.

A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them.

Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it’s only when you have children that you realise you’re not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.

I like my coffee like I like my women. In a plastic cup.

Women are nothing but machines for producing children.

Birth control makes women unattractive and crazy.

Women have to harness their power – its absolutely true. It’s just learning not to take the first no. And if you can’t go straight ahead, you go around the corner.

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.

I want to be motivational and inspirational for everybody: my big aim is more women on bicycles.

Women are the engine driving the growth in California’s economy. Women make California’s economy unique.

Having Black hair is unique in that Black women change up styles a lot. You can walk down one street block in New York City and see 10 different hairstyles that Black women are wearing: straight curls, short cuts, braids – we really run the gamut.

I think one challenge is that having few women in your work environment makes you feel a little isolated and alone. I’m an extrovert; I like talking to people, and I make friends easily, but if your personality is somewhat different, I think you would struggle to connect with people.

I thought I would try to be gay for a while, but I’m just more sexually attracted to women. But I’m really glad that I found a few gay friends, because it totally saved me from becoming a monk or something.

Politics is traditionally a male domain in Russia. Until now, women have only been accessories. Now, female protest groups are emerging – not because men came up with the idea, but through their own efforts. That’s something new for Russia.

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

The higher the better. It’s more about an attitude. High heels empower women in a way.

In real life, too, women love to be that girl who tames the bad boy.

Women should never go without earrings. Passing on them is an opportunity missed.

Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.

Being natural is incredibly empowering for women because it’s just who you are. You’re embracing all the beautiful things about you from your head to your toes. Because when you mask so much of your natural beauty, people don’t get to see that.

I’m not interested in dating. I like being with my own best friend, me. Certain women, particularly older women, cannot believe I like going to a social event by myself. But I do.

Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more and and the average working woman can take care of no more in decent fashion.

Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.

The woman power of this nation can be the power which makes us whole and heals the rotten community, now so shattered by war and poverty and racism. I have great faith in the power of women who will dedicate themselves whole-heartedly to the task of remaking our society.

If there is one thing that the women and men of the late 20th century who have an awareness and enjoyment of history can be sure of, it is that Islam was not sent from Heaven to foster egotism and mediocrity.

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

I believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered.

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it.

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.

Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Women have a favorite room, men a favorite chair.

Relationships are made of talk – and talk is for girls and women.

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.

Women are in a position now to voice their opinion… women are getting empowered. The more power they get, the more voice they get to shift certain things around. Now I have a daughter, I understand. When I didn’t have a daughter, I didn’t understand.

Women are the first to jump on what is fashionable.

We can’t destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.

Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.

We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

I always open doors for women. It’s just good manners.

This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he’s Frank and in Chicago he’s Ernest.

The women’s movement completely changed attitudes all over the world in ways we’ll never be able to count.

If you don’t love yourself, you can’t love anybody else. And I think as women we really forget that.

All women’s issues are to some degree men’s issues and all men’s issues are to some degree women’s issues because when either sex wins unilaterally both sexes lose.

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.

Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.

Everyone has to learn how to live in an environment that has not made it easy for women to claim their place, so I think it’s all women’s responsibility to step forward.

Opera? Just what the world needs: more fat women screaming.

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels – men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

I had it all – money, women, fame, cars, yachts, everything a man could want – but it didn’t give my life meaning.

I’d much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they’re the first to be rescued off sinking ships.

You have to be very careful with women friends.

My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the ’40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I’m very proud to have Latin blood.

A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: ‘Duh.’

I’m so sick of people shaming women for being sensitive or vulnerable. It’s so bizarre to me… I do have those qualities, and I just don’t think there’s anything wrong with them.

Ninety percent I’ll spend on good times, women and Irish Whiskey. The other ten percent I’ll probably waste.

Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving.

I was raised by strong women, and that DNA is in my daughter and wife.

The term ‘alpha female’ originated in my field of animal behavior, but has acquired new meaning. It refers to women who are in charge, for example, by flirting and dating on their own terms. It is also used maliciously for a loud-mouthed, controlling woman who has no patience with deviating opinions.

To me, women have always been the sturdiest people in my life and have been incredible sources of energy.

Most women find a man with good manners sexy.

‘Pretty Lady’ is the conversation piece where you just need to compliment your lady. If you are in a club setting, and you just been eyeing a beautiful woman, this song came from me trying to compliment women and them turning their face up at me.

The Iowa Women’s Health Study, which has followed more than 35,000 women for decades, found eating more broccoli, cauliflower, kale and other cruciferous vegetables was associated with a lower risk of getting non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in the first place.

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

The reason women don’t play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public.

Women – always in trouble with them, but can’t live without them.

Motherhood is more than bearing children, though it is certainly that. It is the essence of who we are as women. It defines our very identity, our divine stature and nature, and the unique traits our Father gave us.

Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.

The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.

Powerful women intimidate men. If she’s a really well-known woman, she has a career, she’s famous – in that case, men are really afraid.

The test of civilization is its estimate of women.

Women’s Lib? Oh, I’m afraid it doesn’t interest me one bit. I’ve been so liberated it hurts.

Women’s liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman.

I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels.

I love surprises – champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

There are only two types of women – goddesses and doormats.

Natural life, lived naturally as it is lived in the countryside, has none of that progress which is the base of happiness. Men and women in rural communities can be compared to a spring that rises out of a rock and spreads in irregular ever-widening circles. But the general principle is static.

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

The freedom movement transformed the status of women. Women fought along with men as comrades. In the process, the shackles that had bound them fell away.

Human rights are women’s rights, and women’s rights are human rights.

Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently.

I can’t date women my own age any more – I hate going to cemeteries.

On YouTube, women are not just users; they’re creators. They’re learning about business and technology, and having a voice.

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t they’d be married too.

The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.

Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It’s about making life more fair for women everywhere. It’s not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It’s about baking a new pie.

A gender line… helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.

The treatment of women in Muslim communities throughout the world is unconscionable. All civilized nations must unite in condemnation of a theology that now threatens to destabilize much of the Earth.

A journey through the Mediterranean is not only inspiring and stimulating, it is also humbling. The men and women who created antique treasures for us to marvel at had to deal with plague, genocide, a world without writing, iron tools, or penicillin – and yet they made something extraordinary of their life and times.

As women, we have super powers. We are sisters. We are healers. We are mothers. We are goddess warriors.

Success doesn’t come overnight, especially for women.

Sometimes you have to not just dream about what could be – you get out and push and you pull and you preach. And you create a climate and environment to get those in high places, to get men and women of good will in power to act.

The men and women of the Greatest Generation answered the call to serve; whether at home or abroad, they defended the freedoms and liberties we enjoy today.

Women’s value has been under-recognized for far too long.

I know lots of women who have slim legs but refuse to wear skirts because of unsightly varicose or spider veins. Though heredity plays a role, your genes don’t have to doom you to a life of long pants.

In a world that wants women to whisper, I choose to yell.

I come from a long line of strong and confident women out of New Orleans. My grandmother and great-grandmother were women who ran their homes and were leaders in their communities. I was never taught that there was anything that I couldn’t do, and I believed that.

These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can’t live with them, or without them.

The American women are very pretty and have great simplicity of character, and the extreme neatness of their appearance is truly delightful: cleanliness is everywhere even more studiously attended to here than in England.

Women in most countries have not achieved much, because they can’t be liberated under the patriarchal, capitalist, imperialist and military system that determines the way we live now, and which is governed by power, not justice, by false democracy, not real freedom.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled.

The topic of trust is an important factor in all matters of the heart – and here’s why. Men lie to women. Women lie to men. And most people agree that some lying is even necessary – to avoid petty squabbles and to grease the wheels of a relationship.

I don’t think I’m a bigot or a racist. But I have a truck, a Blazer. I drink beer. There are some women I do hate.

When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.

I seem to be stuck in the ’60s, and my favorite music, cars, and women’s fashion come from that era. And the sense of social rebellion. It was a good time for a lot of things.

What I’ve never understood is why some women use plastic surgery to make themselves more attractive to men. The most beautiful woman is someone who’s happy and is always smiling.

God gave me some weird, beautiful scent that makes men and women go crazy. People compare it to Carvel. It is a whale of a smell.

The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years are constantly and falsely attributed to the organized women’s movement of the late 1960s and ’70s.

Women say they have sexual thoughts too. They have no idea. It’s the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing it. If they knew what we were really thinking, they’d never stop slapping us.

Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office.

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.

And most people have a woman in their heart, most men have a woman in their heart and most women have a man in their heart.

I confess I sometimes sneak a peek at ‘The Big Bang Theory.’ I chuckle at their antics. But I cringe when they portray physicists as clueless nerds who are doormats when it comes to picking up women.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

Women have a predestination to suffering.

By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.

Women’s rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.

A miracle is really the only way to describe motherhood and giving birth. It’s unbelievable how God has made us women and babies to endure and be able to do so much. A miracle, indeed. Such an incredible blessing.

I don’t call myself a women’s footballer; I say I’m a footballer.

Being a big guy, you face certain challenges. Over time, though, women found excuses to find me attractive.

I think the most important thing… is leadership. It’s something that has been lacking in young women and girls for a very long time, not because we don’t want to but because of what society has labeled women to be. I think we are the most powerful beings in the world and that we should be given every opportunity.

There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.

I want ‘Scars to Your Beautiful’ to reach different types of women. The girl I am talking about, it’s me, it’s you – it’s every girl who has struggled with feeling not good enough. I want to talk about all the different extremes that girls go through to feel beautiful.

The trouble with women umpires is that I couldn’t argue with one. I’d put my arms around her and give her a little kiss.

Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised in the confines of his mother’s home.

Indeed, the Muslims have all the social evils of the Hindus and something more. That something more is the compulsory system of purdah for Muslim women. These burka women walking in the streets is one of the most hideous sights one can witness in India.

I always say God should have given women one extra decade at least, especially if you want a family. You’re trying to pack a lot in.

If there hadn’t been women we’d still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

Black men don’t like to be called ‘boys,’ but women accept being called ‘girls.’

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

I really like how the characters always has to go through some type of long journey that’s like a crazy struggle. And these anime shows give women power. She’s always the queen or somebody that you cannot beat – I love that.

Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman’s attention.

Like all women, my path to womanhood is unique. No two paths are the same. Each of us travel with different privileges, challenges, and perspectives – some limiting, others illuminating.

People say I’m wearing heels because I’m short. I wear heels because the women like ’em.

There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.

Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

Women are clear-headed, they are more creative and for this reason, sometimes, also more fragile.

Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women’s suffrage.

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.

Men and women aren’t the same. And they won’t be the same. That doesn’t mean that they can’t be treated fairly.

I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I’ve always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.